Barrier-free intelligent voice system and control method thereof

ABSTRACT

A barrier-free intelligent voice system and a method for controlling thereof, wherein multiple words are recognized from a voice audio to create multiple independent semantic units. Meanwhile, the system can continuously determine whether they are one of multiple voice tags created by the user. Thereafter, a target object, a program command, and a remark corresponding to the voice tag can be determined based on the successfully compared voice tag combination. Accordingly, a corresponding program can be started or a remote device can be triggered to operate. The present disclosure can be regarded as an AI intelligent voice processing engine. By allowing users to define different types of voice tag combinations, it can eliminate the grammatical and semantic analysis of natural language processing, eliminate speech translation differences and errors between different languages, effectively reduce the amount of calculations, increase the processing speed of the system, minimize system judgment errors.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION (1) Field of the Present Disclosure

The present disclosure relates to an audio recognition, and moreparticularly to a barrier-free intelligent voice system and a method forcontrolling thereof, through which multiple independent semantic unitscan be recognized from a voice audio and successively compared whetherthey are one of multiple voice tags created by the user. According tothe compared voice tags (which can represent a term, a name, a title, acode of a certain subject or information, a single or a combinedcommand, a program, a voice message, a recorded message, etc.), a voicecommand (also called a voice code) corresponding to the voice audio canbe determined to activate the corresponding program or trigger theaction of other controlled devices.

(2) Brief Description of Related Art

With the development of technology, mobile devices with voicerecognition systems have become increasingly popular. Currently, mostvoice recognition systems use language comprehension technology forusers to directly interact with mobile devices in natural language. Forexample, the user can issue continuous voice commands “buy a ticket ofChina Airlines to Tokyo next Wednesday” to the mobile device. However,if the voice recognition system is designed to reach the level of speechunderstanding, it needs to perform a grammatical analysis (for example,using a syntax analyzer) and a semantic interpretation (for example,using a semantic analyzer) on the continuous voice commands such that,after performing part-of-speech tagging for each word of the continuousvoice commands, extracting stemming, forming a Parser tree, andassigning a semantic role to each word of the Parser tree, the analysisof the semantic meaning of the entire sentence voice command will causea larger amount of electronic calculation.

In addition, it is usual that the grammatical structure of suchcontinuous voice commands will follow the restrictions of specificgrammatical rules (including syntax and morphology). Meanwhile, thegrammatical structures of different languages are different. Moreover,the continuous voice commands sent by the user can be complicated, oreven with a lot of redundant words. Also, there can be a slight pausewhen the user gives the continuous voice commands. If grammaticalstructure used by the user is not correct enough, or the user's personalaccent is different, or the user uses different single and mixedlanguages, it may affect the accuracy of the voice recognition system.At the same time, it also creates a certain degree of difficulty fortraining natural language processing models (NLP).

Furthermore, if the voiceprint recognition technology is not used, theexisting voice recognition system cannot distinguish from the user'svoices whether it has the authority to perform specific actions.Therefore, for the voice recognition system that generally uses languagecomprehension technology, how to propose a method and a voicerecognition system that can reduce the amount of voice recognitioncalculations, reduce the impact of grammatical structure on the voicerecognition system, can be used without barriers, can verify usagerights, confidentiality, and fulfill the anti-theft features is still aproblem to be solved.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

It is a primary object of the present disclosure to provide a method forbarrier-free intelligent voice system and a method for controllingthereof, wherein the method includes following steps:

-   -   analyzing a voice audio, wherein a voice recognition unit is        connected to a voice database, and perform a phonetic analysis        on a voice audio received by a voice receiving unit to identify        a plurality of phones therefrom, and then perform a        morphological analysis on the plurality of phones to identify a        plurality of words that can be used as independent semantic        units;    -   comparing voice tags, wherein the voice recognition unit is        connected to a tag database to determine whether the plurality        of words are one of a plurality of target voice tags defined by        a mobile device, and whether the plurality of words are one of a        plurality of command voice tags defined by the mobile device;        and    -   executing a corresponding voice command, wherein, according to        the compared target voice tag corresponding to a target object        in the tag database and according to the compared command voice        tag corresponding to a program command in the tag database, a        processor enables the mobile device to execute the program        command on the target object.

According to the present disclosure, the barrier-free intelligent voicesystem comprises:

-   -   a voice receiving unit establishing an information link with a        processor and provided for receiving a voice audio;    -   a communication unit establishing an information link with the        processor;    -   a voice database storing a plurality of voice audio samples;    -   a tag database storing a plurality of target voice tags and        command voice tags;    -   a voice recognition unit establishing an information link with        the communication unit, the voice database, and the tag        database, the voice recognition unit being provided for        receiving the voice audio sent by the voice receiving unit,        performing a phonetic analysis on the voice audio to identify a        plurality of phones according to a result of reading over the        voice database, and performing a morphological analysis on the        phones to identify a plurality of independent words;        wherein the voice recognition unit may also, according to the        result of reading over the tag database, determine whether the        plurality of words are one of the plurality of target voice tags        defined by a mobile device and whether the plurality of words        are one of the plurality of command voice tags defined by the        mobile device; and        wherein, if it is the case, the voice recognition unit may,        according to the compared target voice tag corresponding to a        target object in the tag database and according to the compared        command voice tag corresponding to a program command in the tag        database, enable the processor of the mobile device via a        communication unit to execute the program command on the target        object.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an intelligent voice system of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing of an information flow of the intelligentvoice system of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a method for controlling the intelligent voicesystem of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing of a step of analyzing voice audio of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 5A is a schematic drawing I of the implementation state of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 5B is a schematic drawing II of the implementation state of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 6A is a schematic drawing of an information flow of the intelligentvoice system according to another embodiment I of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 6B is a schematic drawing I of the implementation state accordingto another embodiment I of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6C is a schematic drawing II of the implementation state accordingto another embodiment I of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an intelligent voice system according toanother embodiment II of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a flow chart of the method for controlling the intelligentvoice system according to another embodiment III of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an intelligent voice system according toanother embodiment IV of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 10 is a schematic drawing of the implementation state according toanother embodiment V of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , a barrier-free intelligent voice system10 according to the present disclosure includes:

A voice receiving unit 1011 establishes an information link with aprocessor 1012 of a mobile device 101 and is provided for receiving avoice audio V. The voice receiving unit 1011 can be a microphone of themobile device 101 or a wireless earphone in wireless communication withthe mobile device 101.

A communication unit 1013 establishes an information link with theprocessor 1012.

A voice database 1021 stores a plurality of voice audio samples, andeach/each group of phone in each voice audio sample corresponds to aword that can be used as an independent semantic unit. Theaforementioned voice audio samples can be recognized by the voicerecognition unit 1023 according to various initials and various finalsof the voice audio V to identify one or more syllables in the voiceaudio samples. The languages of the aforementioned voice audio samplescan be Chinese, English, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, etc., but shouldnot be limited thereto.

A tag database 1022 stores a plurality of target voice tags L1 and aplurality of command voice tags L2.

A voice recognition unit 1023 establishes an information link with thecommunication unit 1013, the voice database 1021, and the tag database1022, respectively. The voice recognition unit 1023 is provided forreceiving the voice audio V sent by the voice receiving unit 1011 via anetwork N, performing a phonetic analysis on the voice audio V toidentify a plurality of phones according to a result of reading over thevoice database 1021, and performing a morphological analysis on thephones to identify a plurality of independent words. Preferably, afterrecognizing the above-mentioned plurality of phones, a phonologicalanalysis can be performed on the voice audio V at the same time toidentify a phoneme of the phone in the corresponding language. Since thephoneme is considered to be the basic distinctive units of phone, it canhelp the voice recognition unit 1023 to distinguish the plurality ofphones as words.

According to the result of reading over the tag database 1022, the voicerecognition unit 1023 can also determine whether the plurality of wordsare one of the plurality of target voice tags L1 defined by the mobiledevice 101 and whether the plurality of words are one of the pluralityof command voice tags L2 defined by the mobile device 101.

The voice recognition unit 1023 may also, according to the comparedtarget voice tag L1 corresponding to a target object O in the tagdatabase 1022 and according to the compared command voice tag L2corresponding to a program command I in the tag database 1022, enablethe processor 1012 of the mobile device 101 via the communication unit1013 to execute the program command I on the target object O.

According to this embodiment, the voice receiving unit 1011, theprocessor 1012, and the communication unit 1013 can all run on themobile device 101.

According to this embodiment, the voice database 1021, the tag database1022, and the voice recognition unit 1023 can all run on a server 102.Of course, the server 102 can include a second processor which will notbe detailed hereinafter.

The target object O illustrated in FIG. 1 can be a contact informationstored in the mobile device 101, such as a contact name, a contact code,and a contact title. Also, the target object O illustrated in FIG. 1 canbe a target object information stored in the mobile device 101, such asa target name, a target code, and a target title. Meanwhile, the targetobject O illustrated in FIG. 1 can be an itinerary information, a to-doinformation, a to-do list information, a file address information, ahyperlink, etc., but it should not be limited thereto. In addition, thetarget object O can also be a controlled device (not shown) that isconnected to the communication unit 1013 of the mobile device 101 viathe network N.

The network N illustrated in FIG. 1 can be, for example, a public orprivate network, such as a wireless network (such as 3G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi),wired network, local area network (LAN), wide area network (WA) etc.,but should not be limited thereto.

The server 102 illustrated in FIG. 1 can be an independent servercomputer that provides connection services, a virtual machine (VM)installed and running in the server computer, a server running in theform of a virtual private server, a public cloud, a private cloud, or anedge device, but it should not be limited thereto.

The processor 1012 illustrated in FIG. 1 may be one of a CPU, an MPU, anMCU, an application processor (AP), an embedded processor, and an ASIC.

The voice database 1021 and the tag database 1022 illustrated in FIG. 1can be a physical database host, a cloud database, or a relationaldatabase or a non-relational database which are stored in the server 102in the form of a plurality of tables, but they should not be limitedthereto.

Referring to FIG. 3 together with FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , the barrier-freeintelligent voice system 10 is suitable for analyzing a voice audio V,and includes a voice receiving unit 1011, a voice database 1021, a tagdatabase 1022, a voice recognition unit 1023, and a processor 1012 of amobile device 101. The method for controlling the barrier-freeintelligent voice system includes following steps:

Step S10 of analyzing a voice audio:

The voice recognition unit 1023 performs a phonetic analysis on thevoice audio V received by the voice receiving unit 1011 to identify aplurality of phones (voices). Thereafter, a morphological analysis isperformed on the plurality of phones to identify a plurality of wordsthat can be used as independent semantic units. For example, “shū thatmeans for book in Chinese”, “book”, “nán hái that means for boy inChinese”, and “boy”, etc. can all be considered as separate words. Forthis step, please refer to FIG. 4 in which a schematic diagram of thestep of analyzing a voice audio. As shown in FIG. 4 , the voice audio Vreceived by the voice receiving unit 1011 may be, regardless of whetherthe plurality of phones is recognized as “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}ob{hacek over (a)}n d{hacek over (a)} that means for Boss Zhuang phone inChinese”, “d{hacek over (a)} zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over(a)}n that means for phone Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “zhuāng l{hacek over(a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n Call that means for Sir Zhuang call in acombination of Chinese and English”, “call Boss Zhuang”, “d{hacek over(a)} t'au-ke Zhuang that means for call Boss Zhuang in a combination ofChinese and Minnan language”, “Chief Zhuang call”, “Sir Zhuang phone”,and regardless of whether the actual expression violates grammaticalrestrictions, recognized as being composed of “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}ob{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese” and “d{hacekover (a)} that means for phone in Chinese”, “t'au-ke Zhuang that meansfor Boss Zhuang in Minnan language” and “d{hacek over (a)} that meansfor phone in Chinese”, “Chief Zhuang” and “d{hacek over (a)} that meansfor phone in Chinese”, “Boss Zhuang” and “d{hacek over (a)} diàn huàthat means for call in Chinese”, “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over(a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese” and “call”, “Sir Zhuang”and “call”, and “Boss Zhuang” and “call”. Similarly, when the voiceaudio V is recognized as “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o ban hé zhào xi{hacekover (a)}n shì that means for present group photo of Boss Zhuang inChinese”, “hé zhào zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n xi{hacekover (a)}n shì that means for group photo of Boss Zhuang present inChinese”, “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n hé zhào showthat means for group photo of Sir Zhuang show in a combination ofChinese and English”, “group photo of t'au-ke Zhuang xi{hacek over (a)}nshì that means for show group photo of Sir Zhuang in a combination ofMinnan language and English”, “hé zhào t'au-ke Zhuang show that meansfor show group photo of Boss Zhuang in a combination of Chinese, Minnanlanguage, and English”, “group photo of Boss Zhuang show”, “show groupphoto of Sir Zhuang”, or “group photo of Sir Zhuang show”, regardless ofwhether its expression violates the grammatical rules, it can be furtherrecognized that it is composed of “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacekover (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “hé zhào that meansfor group photo in Chinese” and “xi{hacek over (a)}n shì that means forpresent or show in Chinese”; “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over(a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “group photo” and“present”; as well as “Boss Zhuang”, “hé zhào that means for group photoin Chinese” and “show”; “t'au-ke Zhuang that means for Boss Zhuang inMinnan language”, “hé zhào that means for group photo in Chinese” and“show”. The above-mentioned is just an example, and should not belimited thereto.

Step S20 of comparing voice tags:

As shown in FIG. 4 , the voice recognition unit 1023 can be connected tothe tag database 1022 to determine whether the plurality of words areone of a plurality of target voice tags L1 defined by the mobile device101 and whether they are one of a plurality of command voice tags L2defined by the mobile device 101. More specifically, if the voice audioV can be recognized as plurality of words consisting of “zhuāng l{hacekover (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese” and“d{hacek over (a)} that means for phone in Chinese”, “t'au-ke Zhuangthat means for Boss Zhuang in Minnan language” and “d{hacek over (a)}that means for phone in Chinese”, “Boss Zhuang” and “d{hacek over (a)}diàn huà that means for call in Chinese”, “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}ob{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese” and “call”,and “t'au-ke Zhuang that means for Boss Zhuang in Minnan language” and“call” as an example, the voice recognition unit 1023 can find “zhuāngl{hacek over (a)}o ban that means Boss Zhuang in Chinese” as the targetvoice tag L1 and find “d{hacek over (a)} that means for phone inChinese”, “call” or “phone” as command voice tag L2 through comparisonin step S20, or the voice recognition unit 1023 can find “Sir Zhuang” asthe target voice tag L1 and find “d{hacek over (a)} that means for phonein Chinese”, “call” or “phone” as command voice tag L2 throughcomparison in step S20. Similarly, if the voice audio V can berecognized as plurality of words consisting of “zhuāng l{hacek over(a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “hézhào that means for group photo in Chinese” and “xi{hacek over (a)}n shìthat means for present in Chinese”; “t'au-ke Zhuang that means for BossZhuang in Minnan language”, “hé zhào that means for group photo inChinese” and “xi{hacek over (a)}n shì that means for present inChinese”; or “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that meansfor Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “group photo” and “show” as an example, thevoice recognition unit 1023 can find out “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o banhé zhào that means for group photo of Boss Zhuang in Chinese” or “groupphoto of Sir Zhuang” as the target voice tag L1 and find out “xi{hacekover (a)}n shì that means for present in Chinese”, “present” or “show”as command voice tag L2 through comparison in step S20. If the voicerecognition unit 1023 finds out the corresponding target voice tag L1and the corresponding command voice tag L2, then continue to step S30,if not, it means that the voice audio cannot be recognized, and step S10or step S20 can be executed again.

Step S30 of executing corresponding voice commands:

According to the compared target voice tags L1 corresponding to a targetobject O in the tag database 1022 and according to the compared commandvoice tag L2 corresponding to a program command I in the tag database1022, the processor 1012 of the mobile device 101 executes the programcommand I on the target object O. To be more specific, if the voiceaudio V can be recognized as the plurality of words consisting of“zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuangin Chinese” and “d{hacek over (a)} that means for phone in Chinese”,“Boss Zhuang” and “telephone”, or “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacekover (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese” and “call” as anexample, the voice recognition unit 1023 can determine in the step S30based on the compared target voice tag L1 “Boss Zhuang” whether it cancorrespond to the target object O “Zhuang Xiaohao's contact number” inthe mobile device 101. At the same time, it can be determined that thecompared command voice tag L2 “call” or “d{hacek over (a)} that meansfor phone in Chinese” can correspond to the program command I “execute aphone application (APP) installed on the mobile device 101 for thetarget object” and execute it (see FIG. 5A). When the voice audio V canbe recognized as plurality of words consisting of “zhuāng l{hacek over(a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “hézhào that means for group photo in Chinese” and “xi{hacek over (a)}n shìthat means for present in Chinese”, or “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}ob{hacek over (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “group photo”and “show” as an example, the voice recognition unit 1023 can determinebased on the compared target voice tag L1 “Boss Zhuang group photo”whether it can correspond to the target object O “group photo withZhuang Xiaohao” in the mobile device 101. At the same time, it can bedetermined that the compared command voice tag L2 “show” or “present”can correspond to the program command I “execute a photo viewer programinstalled on the mobile device 101” and execute it (see FIG. 5B).

Referring to FIGS. 6A through 6C and FIGS. 1 through 3 , when the voicerecognition unit 1023 executes the step S20 (of comparing voice tags),it can determine whether the plurality of words recognized from thevoice audio V also include a remark voice tag L3 defined by the mobiledevice 101. If so, the processor 1012 of the mobile device 101 canadjust the content of the program command I or the target object Oaccording to a remark R corresponding to the remark voice tag L3 in thetag database 1022. To be more specific, if the voice audio V is composedof plurality of words consisting of “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacekover (a)}n that means for Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “d{hacek over (a)}that means for phone in Chinese”, and “zhù jiā that means for home inChinese”, or “zhuāng l{hacek over (a)}o b{hacek over (a)}n that meansfor Boss Zhuang in Chinese”, “call”, and “zhù jiā that means for housein Chinese” as an example, the voice recognition unit 1023 may find“Boss Zhuang” as the target voice tags L1, “phone” or “call” as thecommand voice tag L2, and “home” as the remark voice tag L3 throughcomparison in the step S20 of comparing voice tags. In this way, whenthe voice recognition unit 1023 executes the step S30 of executingcorresponding voice commands, the voice recognition unit 1023 maydetermine according to the compared target voice tag L1 “Boss Zhuang”and the remark voice tag L3 “home” whether the voice audio V correspondsto the target object O “contact phone number of Zhuang Xiaohao's home”in the mobile device 101. According to the compared command voice tag L2“d{hacek over (a)} that means for phone in Chinese”, “call” or “phone”,it can correspond to the program command I “to execute a phoneapplication (APP) installed on the mobile device 101 for the targetobject”, and it is then performed. FIG. 6B shows an example of theremark voice tag L3 that can adjust the content of the target object O.Similarly, in taking the plurality of words consisting of “Boss Zhuang”,“group photo”, “xi{hacek over (a)}n shì that means for present inChinese”, and “say notes”, or “Boss Zhuang”, “group photo”, “show”, and“say remarks” as an example, the voice recognition unit 1023 can findout the target voice tag L1 “group photo of Boss Zhuang”, the commandvoice tags L2 “xi{hacek over (a)}n shì that means for present inChinese” or “show”, and the remark voice tag L3 “say notes” or “sayremark” through comparison in step S20 (of comparing voice tags). Inthis way, when the voice recognition unit 1023 executes the step S30 ofexecuting corresponding voice commands, the voice recognition unit 1023determines whether the compared target voice tag L1 “group photo of BossZhuang” can correspond to the target object O “group photo with ZhuangXiaohau” in the mobile device 101. At the same time, it can bedetermined that the compared command voice tag L2 “xi{hacek over (a)}nshí that means for present in Chinese” or “show” and the compared remarkvoice tag L3 “say notes” or “say remark” correspond to the programcommand I “to execute a photo viewer program installed on the mobiledevice 101, and to play or present the information of note/remarkassociated with the target object”, and then executes it. So far, asshown in FIG. 6C, it is an example of the remark voice tag L3 which mayadjust the content of the program command I.

The technique employed in FIG. 7 is similar to that employed in FIG. 1through FIG. 3 . The main difference lies in that the barrier-freeintelligent voice system 10 of this embodiment further includes anauthority verification unit 1024 storing a plurality of program commandsand establishing an information link with the voice recognition unit1023. The authority verification unit 1024 may determine a level ofauthority of the voice audio V based on the compared target voice tag L1and the compared command voice tag L2 according to the result of readingover the tag database 1022 by the voice recognition unit 1023.Accordingly, the voice recognition unit 1023 determines whether themobile device 101 can execute the program command I based on the currentlevel of authority. In other words, the method S for controlling thebarrier-free intelligent voice system of this embodiment may furtherinclude a step of verifying the use authority (step S25). The authorityverification unit 1024 may determine a level of authority of the voiceaudio V based on the compared target voice tag L1 and the comparedcommand voice tag L2 according to the result of reading over the tagdatabase 1022 by the voice recognition unit 1023. In this way, it isdetermined whether the current level of authority of the mobile device101 can execute the program commands I when the processor 1012 executesstep 30 (of executing corresponding voice commands). For example, theauthority verification unit 1024 determines that the target voice tag L1and the command voice tag L2 corresponding to the voice audio V belongto a first level (the highest level) in the data table stored in the tagdatabase 1022. In this case, the current level of authority of themobile device 101 is determined as a holder level. When the level ofauthority of the program command I is the first level, it is determinedthat the mobile device 101 currently has the authority to execute theprogram command I. As for a second level and a third level of authority,for example, family users can not execute the program commands belongingto the first level. If the authority verification unit 1024 determinesthat the target voice tag L1 and the command voice tag L2 correspondingto the voice audio V belong to the second level in the data table storedin the tag database 1022, and when the level of authority of the programcommand I belongs to the third or second level, it is determined thatthe mobile device 101 currently has the authority to execute the programcommand I. If the authority verification unit 1024 determines that thetarget voice tag L1 and the command voice tag L2 corresponding to thevoice audio V belong to the third level in the data table stored in thetag database 1022, and when the level of authority of the programcommand I belongs to the second level, it is determined that the mobiledevice 101 currently does not have the authority to execute the programcommand I, and so on.

The technique employed in FIG. 8 is similar to that employed in FIG. 1through FIG. 3 . The main difference lies in that the method S forcontrolling the barrier-free intelligent voice system of this embodimentfurther includes a step S5 of detecting a wake-up voice. The voicerecognition unit 1023 first determines whether the voice receiving unit1011 receives a predefined wake-up audio, for example, it receiveswake-up audio such as “Xiaobai” and “Secretary”. If yes, the wake-upaudio is considered as a wake-up mode operation. Then, the step S10 (ofanalyzing a voice audio) is performed for phonetic analysis andmorphological analysis on the voice audio V. Moreover, the method S forcontrolling the barrier-free intelligent voice system of this embodimentfurther includes a step S35 of detecting a sleep voice. The voicerecognition unit 1023 determines whether the voice receiving unit 1011receives a predefined sleep audio, for example, it receives sleep audiosuch as “Xiaobai off” and “secretary rest”. If yes, the sleep audio canbe considered as a sleep mode operation to stop performing the step S10of analyzing a voice audio. It means to stop the phonetic analysis andthe morphological analysis on the voice audio V, and only continue toperform step S5. In addition, the step S35 can also be executed afterstep S5, step S10, or step S20. It is not limited to the sequenceillustrated in FIG. 8 .

Referring to FIG. 9 together with FIG. 1 through FIG. 3 , thebarrier-free intelligent voice system 10, the voice database 1021, thetag database 1022, the voice recognition unit 1023, and the authorityverification unit 1024 may be all installed in the mobile device 101.The barrier-free intelligent voice system 10 of the present disclosureallows the user to directly use the mobile device 101 to recognize andexecute voice commands at the moment even if there is no communicationnetwork.

Referring to FIG. 10 together with FIG. 1 through FIG. 3 illustratingthe barrier-free intelligent voice system 10, the target object O can bea controlled device 103, such as electric doors, lamps, televisions,electrical appliances, etc. other than the mobile device 101 when thevoice recognition unit 1023 enables the processor 1012 of the mobiledevice 101 to execute the program command I on the target object Oaccording to the compared target voice tag L1 corresponding to a targetobject O in the tag database 1022 and according to the compared commandvoice tag L2 corresponding to a program command I in the tag database1022. For example, the user can operate the mobile device 101 to allowthe voice receiving unit 1011 to receive the voice audio V, so that thevoice audio V can be recognized by the voice recognition unit 1023 asbeing composed of plurality of words such as “turn on” (corresponding tothe command voice tags L2) and “TV TVS” (corresponding to the targetvoice tag L1). Regardless of whether the grammatical structure of thevoice audio V is correct, the voice recognition unit 1023 can furtherfind out the target object O “TV TVS News Channel” corresponding to thetarget voice tag L1 and the program command I “The communication unit1013 of the mobile device 101 turns on the smart TV wirelessly”corresponding to the command voice tag L2 through comparison. Theabove-mentioned is only an example and should not be limited thereto.

In addition, the present disclosure further discloses a computer programproduct capable of executing the method S for controlling thebarrier-free intelligent voice system. When the computer system loadsmultiple program commands of the computer program product, at leaststeps S5, S10, S20, S25, S30, and S35 of the aforementioned method S forcontrolling the barrier-free intelligent voice system can be executed.

The present disclosure can achieve at least the following advantages:

1. Regardless of whether the grammatical rules of the voice audio arecorrect or not, the voice audio will be compared with the combination ofvoice tags created by the user (to represent the name, title, code,single or combined commands, programs, voice messages, recordingmessages, etc.), it can be readily recognized whether the voice audiocan correspond to a target object and a program command. Compared withthe conventional natural language understanding (NLU) or naturallanguage processing (NLP), the present disclosure can effectively reducethe amount of calculations, increase the processing speed of the system,and minimize the system's judgment errors. Moreover, it can eliminatethe differences in speech translation between different languages. Atthe same time, it is not limited by language, pitch, and timbre, so thepresent disclosure can recognize the audio of people with speechdisabilities, and can also recognize the audio of normal people such aschildren, ordinary adults, and older people. Accordingly, thebarrier-free use can be achieved.2. The present disclosure compares the voice tag combination created bythe user, can judge the current level of authority of the voice audio atthe same time, and achieve the verification function similar to audioencryption. If the third party does not know the voice tag combinationcreated by the user, and the voice audio is not from the original user,it is not possible to drive the mobile device to perform a specificfunction or activate the controlled devices other than the mobile deviceby emitting the voice audio.

Many changes and modifications in the above-described embodiments of theinvention can, of course, be carried out without departing from thescope thereof. Accordingly, to promote the progress in science and theuseful arts, the invention is disclosed and is intended to be limitedonly by the scope of the appended claims.

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-   1 barrier-free intelligent voice system-   101 mobile device-   1011 voice receiving unit-   1012 processor-   1013 communication unit-   102 server-   1021 voice database-   1022 tag database-   1023 voice recognition unit-   1024 authority verification unit-   103 controlled device-   V voice audio-   L1 target voice tag-   O target object-   L2 command voice tag-   I program command-   L3 remark voice tag-   R remark-   N network-   S method for controlling the barrier-free intelligent voice system-   S5 detecting a wake-up voice-   S10 analyzing a voice audio-   S20 comparing voice tags-   S25 verifying the use authority-   S30 executing corresponding voice commands-   S35 detecting a sleep voice

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for controlling a barrier-freeintelligent voice system, the barrier-free intelligent voice systemintended to analyze a voice audio and having a voice receiving unit, avoice database, a tag database, a voice recognition unit, an authorityverification unit, and a processor of a mobile device, the methodcomprising steps of: analyzing a voice audio, wherein the voicerecognition unit is connected to the voice database, and perform aphonetic analysis on a voice audio received by a voice receiving unit toidentify a plurality of phones therefrom, and then perform amorphological analysis on the plurality of phones to identify aplurality of words that can be used as independent semantic units;comparing voice tags, wherein the voice recognition unit is connected tothe tag database to determine whether the plurality of words are one ofa plurality of target voice tags defined by a mobile device, and whetherthe plurality of words are one of a plurality of command voice tagsdefined by the mobile device; and executing a corresponding voicecommand, wherein, according to the compared target voice tagcorresponding to a target object in the tag database and according tothe compared command voice tag corresponding to a program command in thetag database, the processor enables the mobile device to execute theprogram command on the target object.
 2. The method as claimed in claim1 further comprising a step of detecting a wake-up voice, wherein thevoice recognition unit determines whether the voice receiving unitreceives a predefined wake-up audio, and if so, the wake-up audio isregarded as a wake-up mode operation, whereafter the step of analyzing avoice audio is performed on the voice audio.
 3. The method as claimed inclaim 1, wherein, when the step of comparing voice tags is executed, thevoice recognition unit determines whether the plurality of wordsrecognized from the voice audio also include a remark voice tag definedby the mobile device, and wherein if it is the case, then the processoradjusts a content of the program command or a content of the targetobject which are related to a remark corresponding to the remark voicetag in the tag database.
 4. The method as claimed in claim 1 furthercomprising a step of step of verifying the use authority, wherein anauthority verification unit judges a level of authority of the voiceaudio according to the compared target voice tags and the comparedcommand voice tags to determine whether the mobile device can executethe program command based on the current level of authority when theprocessor performs the step of executing corresponding voice commands.5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a step ofdetecting a sleep voice, wherein the voice recognition unit determineswhether the voice receiving unit receives a predefined sleep audio, andif it is the case, the sleep audio is regarded as a sleep modeoperation, and stops performing the step of analyzing a voice audio stepon the voice audio again.
 6. A barrier-free intelligent voice system,comprising: a voice receiving unit establishing an information link witha processor of a mobile device to receive a voice audio; a communicationunit establishing an information link with the processor; a voicedatabase storing a plurality of voice audio samples; a tag databasestoring a plurality of target voice tags and command voice tags; a voicerecognition unit establishing an information link with the communicationunit, the voice database, and the tag database, the voice recognitionunit being provided for receiving the voice audio sent by the voicereceiving unit, performing a phonetic analysis on the voice audio toidentify a plurality of phones according to a result of reading over thevoice database, and performing a morphological analysis on the phones toidentify a plurality of independent words; wherein the voice recognitionunit also, according to the result of reading over the tag database,determine whether the plurality of words are one of the plurality oftarget voice tags defined by the mobile device and whether the pluralityof words are one of the plurality of command voice tags defined by themobile device; and wherein the voice recognition unit may, according tothe compared target voice tag corresponding to a target object in thetag database and according to the compared command voice tagcorresponding to a program command in the tag database, enable theprocessor of the mobile device via the communication unit to execute theprogram command on the target object.
 7. The system as claimed in claim6, wherein the voice recognition unit is also used to determine whetherthe voice receiving unit receives a pre-defined wake-up audio and asleep audio, and wherein if the wake-up audio is received, the phoneticanalysis and the morphological analysis are performed on the voiceaudio, and wherein, after receiving the sleep audio, the phoneticanalysis and the morphological analysis are not performed on the voiceaudio again.
 8. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the voicerecognition unit is also used to determine based on the result ofreading over the tag database whether the plurality of words recognizedfrom the voice audio also include a remark voice tag defined by themobile device, and wherein, if it is the case, the processor of themobile device may adjust a content of the program command or a contentof the target object which are related to a remark corresponding to theremark voice tag in the tag database.
 9. The system as claimed in claim6, further comprising an authority verification unit in an informationlink with the voice recognition unit, and wherein the authorityverification unit judges a level of authority of the voice audioaccording to the compared target voice tags and the compared commandvoice tags for the voice recognition unit to determine whether theprocessor of the mobile device may execute the program command based onthe current level of authority.
 10. A barrier-free intelligent voicesystem, intended to a mobile device having a processor, comprising: avoice receiving unit establishing an information link with the processorto receive a voice audio; a voice database storing a plurality of voiceaudio samples; a tag database storing a plurality of target voice tagsand command voice tags; a voice recognition unit establishing aninformation link with the voice database and the tag database, the voicerecognition unit being provided for receiving the voice audio sent bythe voice receiving unit, performing a phonetic analysis on the voiceaudio to identify a plurality of phones according to a result of readingover the voice database, and performing a morphological analysis on thephones to identify a plurality of independent words; wherein the voicerecognition unit also, according to the result of reading over the tagdatabase, determine whether the plurality of words are one of theplurality of target voice tags defined by the mobile device and whetherthe plurality of words are one of the plurality of command voice tagsdefined by the mobile device; and wherein, if it is the case, the voicerecognition unit, according to the compared target voice tagcorresponding to a target object in the tag database and according tothe compared command voice tag corresponding to a program command I inthe tag database, enables the processor of the mobile device to executethe program command I on the target object.